Word: homers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uneasy task of assembling the show was slender, studious Curator John Walker of Washington's National Gallery. Walker and his helpers among top-drawer U.S. museum directors had no trouble picking 19th Century masters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, but debated back & forth over such contemporary choices as Morris Grave's scratchy watercolor called Little Known Bird of the Inner Eye and Man Ray's crisp Admiration of the Ochestrelle for the Cinematograph...
...president of the University would have a hard time succeeding popular Homer Price Rainey (TIME, Nov. 13, 1944). Rainey, now running for governor, was kicked out by the regents 18 months ago, on a free-speech issue. Many on the campus have no love for the regents, mostly big businessmen...
...Homer W. LeSourd...
...like the taste of the stuff.) Occasion: the monthly luncheon of her Spanish teacher's class. Mrs. Truman, who turned up in a hat to remember (see cut), was on a spot: no water was served with the meal, which was so spicily Iberian that Senator Homer Ferguson's wife Myrtle was moved to report: "Now I know where the flamethrowers come from...
Died. Ernest Rhys (rhymes with lease), 86, bewhiskered British poet and essayist, creator of the famed Everyman's Library, which gave the common man cheap editions of Homer, Aristotle, Mark Twain and some 500 other authors; in London...